Freezing Iran's program at current levels of capability still leads to a nuclear weapon. This mess has been headed toward war since Iran initiated its program and threatened to destroy Israel. There are no easy solutions. Both President Bush and President Obama have failed the world.

Larry Gilbert

It's naive to think that Iranian hard-liners will stop their enrichment program. No matter what the international community does, the main thing that the hard-liners want is the bomb. No matter what sanctions are used, Iranian hard-liners will not stop until they get the bomb. You can't make deals with hard-liners. Being soft on the bomb will get many innocent men, women and children killed.

Ron Williams

Iran didn't start this course of action in 2008. It's been going on for a while. Also, since when do we need Israel's and France's blessing to conduct diplomacy? Do we need to ask permission from Israel to negotiate with Iran now? Our relationship with that country is the most overblown, overhyped alliance.

S Vinson Artist

What a hypocrite Benjamin Netanyahu is. Palestinians in the occupied territories are treated as if they're nothing but vermin. Their land is constantly being confiscated. And he, of all people, has the nerve to lecture the Americans about how they should conduct foreign policy. The Americans have always bent over backward and compromised their own principles and values for Israel. As long as Israel has this unconditional U.S. backing, it will feel no need to behave in a decent humanitarian manner and finally learn to live with neighbors in a constructive way.

Jack Bandy

Letter to the editor

Instead of criticizing any potential agreement with Iran, the Israeli government could play a constructive role in the effort to keep Iran from going nuclear by joining the talks. The elephant in the room is that Israel has a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Countries in the region have little incentive to stay non-nuclear when Israel, Pakistan, India and the USA have an abundance of nuclear weapons ready to use. Instead, Iran and other countries like it may think that they, too, need nuclear arms to defend themselves and deter others. That's not an unreasonable thought. Israel repeats that a nuclear-armed Iran is an "existential threat." Yet many other countries in the region may view Israel, especially a nuclear-armed Israel, as an existential threat. Ultimately, until no country in the region has nuclear weapons, there is no long-term incentive for any country to stay non-nuclear.